Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

A Casebook

Hans Rudolf Vaget

This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar and inescapable topics of Magic Mountain scholarship, including the questions of genre and ideology, the philosophy of time, and the ominous subjects of disease and medical practice. Moreover, this volume offers fresh approaches to the novel's underlying notions of masculinity, to its embodiment of the cultural code of anti-Semitism, and to its precarious relationship to the rival media of photography, cinema, and recorded sound.

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

A Casebook

Hans Rudolf Vaget

Description

This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar and inescapable topics of Magic Mountain scholarship, including the questions of genre and ideology, the philosophy of time, and the ominous subjects of disease and medical practice. Moreover, this volume offers fresh approaches to the novel's underlying notions of masculinity, to its embodiment of the cultural code of anti-Semitism, and to its precarious relationship to the rival media of photography, cinema, and recorded sound.

Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain

A Casebook

Hans Rudolf Vaget

Table of Contents

Introduction, Hans Rudolf VagetThe Making of The Magic Mountain, Hans Rudolf VagetDeath, Knowledge and the Formation of Self: The Magic Mountain, Martin TraversPhotography and Bildung in The Magic Mountain, Eric DowningProjections on Blank Space: Landscape, Nationality, and Identity in Der Zauberberg, Nancy P. Nenno"Politically Suspect:" Music on the Magic Mountain, Hans Rudolf VagetNaphta and His Ilk: Jewish Characters in Mann's Magic Mountain, Franka Marquardt and Yahya Elsaghe"Linke Leute von rechts:" Thomas Mann's Naphta and the Ideological Confluence of Radical Right and Radical Left in the Early Years of the Weimar Republic, Anthony GrenvilleModern Masculinities on the Magic Mountain, Todd KontjeThe "Magic Mountain Malady:" Der Zauberg and the Medical Community 1924-2006, Malte HerwigTelling Timelessness in Der Zauberg, Dorrit CohnThe Magic Mountain: A "Humoristic Counterpart to Death in Venice, Ellis ShookmanFurther Readings